BRADSHAW, Henry (1831-1886) Cambridge University Library 1856-1858, 1859-1886 (CL 1867) Primarily a distinguished bibliographer, palaeographer and Chaucer scholar, he also did much to modernize his library's service. He published little; in common with many other librarians much of his exceptional scholarship was manifested in the publications of others among whom his helpfulness was a byword. He was LA President in 1882. G W Prothero Memoir of Henry Bradshaw (1888) R Stokes Henry Bradshaw (1984)
David McKitterick, ‘Bradshaw, Henry (1831–1886)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3198, accessed 9 Sept 2008]
Cambridge University Library 1856-1858, 1859-1886 (CL 1867)
Primarily a distinguished bibliographer, palaeographer and Chaucer scholar, he also did much to modernize his library's service. He published little; in common with many other librarians much of his exceptional scholarship was manifested in the publications of others among whom his helpfulness was a byword. He was LA President in 1882.
G W Prothero Memoir of Henry Bradshaw (1888)
R Stokes Henry Bradshaw (1984)
David McKitterick, ‘Bradshaw, Henry (1831–1886)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3198, accessed 9 Sept 2008]